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| Morrigu wrote: | Women were recently banned from entering a Starbucks in the Saudi capital Riyadh, by the country’s religious police.
The incident occurred when a gender segregation wall (required by authorities at all restaurants in KSA) collapsed inside a branch of Starbucks in KSA.
Arabic language daily newspaper Al Weaam reports, the religious police barred women from the premises after a segregation wall collapsed several times in the coffee chain.
According to Al Weaam, Saudi’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ordered the café’s management to not allow women on the premises, after finding the division wall collapsed during a routine inspection.
Management at the outlet claimed that the wall had collapsed several times due to customer stampedes.
Women trying to enter the Starbucks in Riyadh subsequently found a sign on the door, reading: "On order by the Commission… please no women allowed in… women can send in their drivers to buy for them.”
http://www.arabianindustry.com/hospitality/news/2016/feb/2/women-banned-from-saudi-starbucks-5282927/
Well really they cant expect a vote and to be able to buy their own coffee 
Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice  A whole century has passed these nuffies by |
This place is definitely off the bucket list!
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Well, at least someone is putting their morality where their pocket is:
| Independent wrote: | European Parliament votes for EU-wide arms export embargo against Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has been accused of bombing civilians with European-made equipment during in its war in Yemen
The European Parliament has voted in favour of an EU-wide embargo on selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
A resolution calling for a ban on all weapons sales to the country was passed by 359 votes to 212, with 31 MEPs abstaining.
The non-binding motion calls on member states to stop selling weapons to the country, which is currently conducting a widely-criticised military operation in neighbouring Yemen marked by high civilian casualties.
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Criticism of the country’s military operation have however included the bombing of multiple hospitals run by the charity Médecins Sans Frontières and the deaths of thousands of civilians, including 130 at a single wedding.
While international observers have recognised abuses on all sides, in late December UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said that a “disproportionate” number of attacks of civilians in Yemen had come from the Saudi-led invasion force.
“I have observed with extreme concern the continuation of heavy shelling from the ground and the air in areas with high a concentration of civilians as well as the perpetuation of the destruction of civilian infrastructure – in particular hospitals and schools – by all parties to the conflict, although a disproportionate amount appeared to be the result of airstrikes carried out by Coalition forces,” Mr Zeid said.
The UN has also said Saudi Arabia is contributing to a “humanitarian disaster” in Yemen.
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Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade said the sale of European weapons to the region was fuelling the war in the region and that EU member states should listen to the European Parliament. |
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/saudi-arabia-arms-export-embargo-european-parliament-eu-wide-arms-export-embargo-uk-a6895226.html
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| pietillidie wrote: | Well, at least someone is putting their morality where their pocket is:
| Independent wrote: | European Parliament votes for EU-wide arms export embargo against Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has been accused of bombing civilians with European-made equipment during in its war in Yemen
The European Parliament has voted in favour of an EU-wide embargo on selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
A resolution calling for a ban on all weapons sales to the country was passed by 359 votes to 212, with 31 MEPs abstaining.
The non-binding motion calls on member states to stop selling weapons to the country, which is currently conducting a widely-criticised military operation in neighbouring Yemen marked by high civilian casualties.
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Criticism of the country’s military operation have however included the bombing of multiple hospitals run by the charity Médecins Sans Frontières and the deaths of thousands of civilians, including 130 at a single wedding.
While international observers have recognised abuses on all sides, in late December UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said that a “disproportionate” number of attacks of civilians in Yemen had come from the Saudi-led invasion force.
“I have observed with extreme concern the continuation of heavy shelling from the ground and the air in areas with high a concentration of civilians as well as the perpetuation of the destruction of civilian infrastructure – in particular hospitals and schools – by all parties to the conflict, although a disproportionate amount appeared to be the result of airstrikes carried out by Coalition forces,” Mr Zeid said.
The UN has also said Saudi Arabia is contributing to a “humanitarian disaster” in Yemen.
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Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade said the sale of European weapons to the region was fuelling the war in the region and that EU member states should listen to the European Parliament. |
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/saudi-arabia-arms-export-embargo-european-parliament-eu-wide-arms-export-embargo-uk-a6895226.html |
It's a good job those nice "european bombs" land only on the bad fellas.
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| think positive wrote: | | Morrigu wrote: | Women were recently banned from entering a Starbucks in the Saudi capital Riyadh, by the country’s religious police.
The incident occurred when a gender segregation wall (required by authorities at all restaurants in KSA) collapsed inside a branch of Starbucks in KSA.
Arabic language daily newspaper Al Weaam reports, the religious police barred women from the premises after a segregation wall collapsed several times in the coffee chain.
According to Al Weaam, Saudi’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ordered the café’s management to not allow women on the premises, after finding the division wall collapsed during a routine inspection.
Management at the outlet claimed that the wall had collapsed several times due to customer stampedes.
Women trying to enter the Starbucks in Riyadh subsequently found a sign on the door, reading: "On order by the Commission… please no women allowed in… women can send in their drivers to buy for them.”
http://www.arabianindustry.com/hospitality/news/2016/feb/2/women-banned-from-saudi-starbucks-5282927/
Well really they cant expect a vote and to be able to buy their own coffee
Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice A whole century has passed these nuffies by |
This place is definitely off the bucket list! |
The bucket is filled with the severed heads from the last public executions anyway. |
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| Quote: | September 11 terror attack: Pages of US report detailing possible Saudi ties made public
The US Congress has released a long-classified section of the official report on the September 11 attacks, describing an array of potential links between some of the hijackers and officials in Saudi Arabia.
The 28 pages of the report on the 2002 investigation focus on potential Saudi Government ties to the 2001 aircraft attacks on the United States, in which nearly 3,000 people died.
The report said the alleged links had not been independently verified.
The pages were released by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee after years of wrangling in Washington between Congress and different administrations, Republicans and Democrats, and urging by families of those killed.
"The matter is now finished," Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Washington.
Asked whether the report exonerated the kingdom, he replied: "Absolutely".
The release of the previously classified pages is unlikely to end the controversy over the role of Saudi Arabia, an important US partner in the Middle East.
Many US officials who opposed their release had worried they would damage diplomatic relations.
Fifteen of the 19 September 11 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
They included reported contacts between Saudis in California, money possibly sent from the Saudi royal family to the hijackers and even a statement that a reported Saudi Interior Ministry official stayed at the same Virginia hotel as one hijacker in September 2001.
One section said Omar al-Bayoumi, said to be a Saudi intelligence officer, met with two hijackers at a public place after they arrived in San Diego.
Citing Federal Bureau of Investigation files, it said his salary rose to $US3,700 ($4,885) a month from $US465 two months after two of the hijackers arrived in California.
Another described how two of the hijackers asked flight attendants technical questions during a trip in 1999 from Phoenix to Washington to attend a party at the Saudi embassy.
One tried twice to enter the cockpit.
The plane made an emergency landing and the FBI investigated, but did not prosecute.
The newly declassified pages also say a telephone number found in a telephone book of Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Al Qaeda operative captured in Pakistan, was for a Colorado corporation that managed the affairs of the residence of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to Washington |
| Quote: | Key points:
Newly-released pages of 9/11 report say plotters' ties to Saudi kingdom cannot be independently verified
US Director of National Intelligence says bin Laden sympathisers did infiltrate Saudi Government
Legislation allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Government is before the House
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-16/pages-of-us-september-11-report-made-public/7635078
What are people's thoughts on this?
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Wokko 
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| Wokko wrote: | http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/04/23/united-nations-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/
Amazing what Oil money can buy you. |
A lot os Arabs come to my part of the world.They come to shop for knock off fashion, drink alcoholm eat pork and ogle women. A lot of gays come as well to avoid execution etc. They rarely cause trouble. A lot of muslims live here but moderate and assimilated.
But putting these bozos on the UN womens rights commission is living proof that a total restructure of the UN is needed from the top down.
Indonesia has virtuallu banned their women from going to Saudi Arabia due to a few young girls beaten to death by employers, who were promptly exonerated.
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| ronrat wrote: | | Wokko wrote: | http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/04/23/united-nations-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/
Amazing what Oil money can buy you. |
A lot os Arabs come to my part of the world.They come to shop for knock off fashion, drink alcoholm eat pork and ogle women. A lot of gays come as well to avoid execution etc. They rarely cause trouble. A lot of muslims live here but moderate and assimilated.
But putting these bozos on the UN womens rights commission is living proof that a total restructure of the UN is needed from the top down.
Indonesia has virtuallu banned their women from going to Saudi Arabia due to a few young girls beaten to death by employers, who were promptly exonerated. |
Great place to be apparently if you're a single bloke. You can rape a woman and if she reports it, she gets sent to gaol for having sex outside of wedlock, you get off scot free. 
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Skids 
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Chef here worked in a hotel in Bahrain a few years ago.
Reckons on the weekends the line of traffic crossing the border went as far as the eye could see. Saudis would flood into the place, girls lined up for them. Screw their brains out, eat bacon by the tonne and drink themselves senseless.
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Wokko
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| Skids wrote: | Chef here worked in a hotel in Bahrain a few years ago.
Reckons on the weekends the line of traffic crossing the border went as far as the eye could see. Saudis would flood into the place, girls lined up for them. Screw their brains out, eat bacon by the tonne and drink themselves senseless. |
There's no hypocrite like a religious hypocrite. |
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Morrigu 
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| Wokko wrote: | http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/04/23/united-nations-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/
Amazing what Oil money can buy you. |
Ah the wonderful corrupt and totally useless UN 
The WTF thread would have been apt too!!!
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| Wokko wrote: | | Skids wrote: | Chef here worked in a hotel in Bahrain a few years ago.
Reckons on the weekends the line of traffic crossing the border went as far as the eye could see. Saudis would flood into the place, girls lined up for them. Screw their brains out, eat bacon by the tonne and drink themselves senseless. |
There's no hypocrite like a religious hypocrite. |
Don't know - more than half the shadow cabinet over here send their children to private or the very few state selective schools while being firmly against both school types in their manifesto. State comprehensives are good enough for your children, but not theirs. Your modern urban left hypocrite gives the religious zealot a good run for their money.
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HAL
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David
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| Skids wrote: | Chef here worked in a hotel in Bahrain a few years ago.
Reckons on the weekends the line of traffic crossing the border went as far as the eye could see. Saudis would flood into the place, girls lined up for them. Screw their brains out, eat bacon by the tonne and drink themselves senseless. |
Makes sense. If you and I lived in Saudi Arabia, I suspect we'd do much the same!
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